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The safe city, a modern-day concept centered on providing security for urban dwellers, continues to thrive, with the range of technologies oriented toward safe-city dynamics projected to enjoy solid growth in the years to come.

The “software-defined” focus of telecom means not only separation of the control plane and the data plane with a centralized view of the whole network or its major parts but also a distribution of intelligence—read compute—in stepping stones toward the extreme edge of the network. We hear “edge compute” embodied in such efforts as MEC, at first in “Mobile Edge Compute,” morphing into “Multi-access Edge Compute”.

A bit more than 1 month after we shipped our annual Service Provider Outsourcing to Vendors Market Report (5/05/16), in which we forecast moderate growth due to the absence of a major multi-billion dollar deal, Ericsson managed to bag one from VimpelCom—though it’s just $1B!